Notary Services

I have a dumb question...

What's the easiest way of going about finding someone to make a certified copy of my passport?  I really only need the picture page & the page with my FLR (I want to have these copies while my passport is sent off for a COA application, because I will be applying for jobs in the meantime).  Some sort of database, maybe?

The Yellow Pages?

Vicky

The Yellow Pages?

Vicky

So I can pretty much ring up any random solicitor and they will do it?  I just didn't know if there were certain 'types' of solicitors that did this sort of thing.  Might use one of the boy's contacts if I can get a cheap deal .

Any member of the Law Society will do.

Vicky

When DF was over for Christmas I made a copy of his passport and his drivers license. My sister in law is a notary, and has signed and notarized them, but does not have a seal. Would her notarizing these documents be sufficient for the Visa applications? Or does he need to have them notarized in the UK?

Thank you...Michigal

It sounds to me as though your sister-in-law, a notary, CERTIFIED them!

Which is fine.

Vicky

we needed certified copies of our passports to open an offshore bank account  - we used HSBC (although the offshore account was also for HSBC and they insisted that they had to send in the certified copies directly to the offshore branch).  I'd look to see if your bank offers that as a service....

I am applying for EC/Settlement as a Spouse in May after we get married (I'm American, he's English). My fiance would like to send a certified copy of his passport rather than the original so we can travel in the US for our honeymoon while my visa is being processed (he does not have a driver's license).

Does the entire passport need to be copied (or just the first page with his info)?

Many thanks!

I believe every page of his passport needs to be certified.  It is rather expensive depending on where you are in the world so I think hes best bet is to send the original passport.  Don't worry- he will get it back!

Not true.

If it is just to prove his residence in the UK, then it only need to be the details page.

If he needs to copy entry clearance stamps to prove contact then he should do the whole thing or even just those pages.

He could also send a regular photocopy and his original birth certificate instead.


Vicky

The myth that a sponsor needs to certify blank passport pages is ridiculous, but persistent. 

The confusion arises because sometimes an applicant needs to do that for nationality applications where every incident recorded in a passport is relevant.

I will ask UKvisas (or whatever their new name turns out to be) to publish a clarification on their site.

Hello all

This is a very useful thread and I'm hopeful you can help me.  I'm in the UK and need to get a document witnessed by a US Notary Public.  I've found the information on the US Embassy website about their notary services, I was hoping to avoid travelling to London and finding a quicker option than the 2-step British system. Does anyone know of any US notary publics offering services closer to Yorkshire?

Many thanks
Juliet

Try the Yellow pages www.yell.co.uk


Vicky

There are US Notary Publics here in the UK?
So, if I got a Notary training my next trip back to the US, could I then notarize my own documents? :-)

I think that would be looked on as a conflict.

Vicky